Salesforce is adding Bring Your Own Key functionality to the platform encryption service within Salesforce Shield, a set of integrated security services built natively into the Salesforce platform. Salesforce Shield rolled out last year. Its Platform Encryption is built into its metadata platform, which means customers can encrypt data

The latest figures from the Ponemon Institute and IBM 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study show an ongoing increase in the cost of a data breach.
For companies that participated in the study, the number rose to $3.79 million. And that’s just the tangible cost.

SAN FRANCISCO —In a keynote address before the RSA Conference today that harkened back to the headstrong days of the 1980s, when defiant academics demonstrated encryption using floppy diskettes, RSA President Amit Yoran threw down the gauntlet.

Think back three years and you probably recall a cacophony of moans and groans from digital marketers.
Google had announced that search conducted through a Google service – Gmail, Google Plus, etc. – would be encrypted.

If the whole web were encrypted by default, communications engineers argued, then malicious actors wouldn’t be able to guess which web sessions were relatively important by whether or not they were encrypted. The technology existed, the standards were in place and most of these engineers were supportive. It was 1999.

A new, web-based secure messaging system announced this morning by Mimecast aims to address the continuing problem of malicious payload passing through email. Mimecast’s strategy with its simply named Secure Messaging service is not entirely new: Direct Outlook to upload email attachments to a web gateway, encrypt them there using

People are still choosing poor passwords. According to SplashData, which compiles a yearly report on the worst passwords, the word “password” itself was only second to the even more egregious 123456 in 2013.

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